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David is an internationally renowned antiquarian bookseller who has been dealing in rare books and original artwork for over forty years. He learned the business from the ground up from his grandfather, Jack Joseph and great uncle, Sam Joseph, who traded as E. Joseph, the firm established by the family patriarch, Emmanuel Joseph, in 1876 on Holywell Street in the Strand. In 1900, E. Joseph moved to no. 48 on Charing Cross Road, the famed bookseller's row in London. Another branch of the family traded as Marks & Co., the booksellers immortalized by Helene Hanff in her history of the shop down the street from E. Joseph, 84 Charing Cross Road. David's family traces its roots in the book business to an ancestor who had a bookstall in St. Paul's churchyard in London in 1516. Jack and Sam Joseph, the firm E. Joseph, and David are affectionately and respectfully discussed in rare book dealer O. F. Snelling's Rare Books and Rarer People (Werner Shaw, 1982), as well as in David Low's 'With All Faults' (Amate Press, 1973). After a sojourn at Bernard Quaritch to study the art of rare book cataloging, David returned to the family business, managing and ultimately assuming ownership of the firm 1973-1993. Moving to Los Angeles in 1993, he became Director of Acquisitions 1993-1997 and Vice President from 1997-2004 of Heritage Book Shop, Inc. He was President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association in England from 1990-1992, a member of the British Antique Dealers Association, and...